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pawn: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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pawn1 CONSTRUCTPawn (vs origin)DECHARMS · 1972

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Motivation psychology

A person who feels pushed around rather than self-driven

In motivation psychology a pawn is a person who experiences their behaviour as externally pushed, as if moved by forces outside themselves, in contrast to an origin, who experiences behaviour as self-caused. deCharms introduced the origin-versus-pawn distinction and, in his 1972 study Personal causation training in the schools, showed that classroom programmes could shift children toward feeling like origins. The referent is a felt locus of personal causation, a precursor to later work on autonomy and self-determination, and it is unrelated to a chess piece or a collateral loan beyond the shared image of being moved by another's hand.[1]

Unit
The degree to which a person feels their own actions are self-caused rather than externally controlled
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed through origin-pawn coding of self-reports and behaviour, and changes under personal-causation training

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References

  1. deCharms, R. (1972). Personal causation training in the schools. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2(2), 95–113. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1972.tb01266.x

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